“Politics, economics, international
relations, religion: Everything in our world is getting weirder,
and the weirding is happening faster all the time.

This change is rapidly propelling us
into a century that will be radically different from everything
humanity has known before. We have all been given tickets on the
wildest rollercoaster ride in the history of Planet Earth.

Our governing classes, our
academics, our journalists, and our professionals mostly hate
this and, with eyes firmly fixed in the rear view mirror, try to
pretend that the world of the 20th century can never, will never
break up.”

What do we expect when our entire planet
has shifted on its axis and unexplainable increases in gamma
radiation are being detected, both affecting the weather? Everything
is changing around us; even thousands of miles beneath our feet the
earth is rumbling loudly with a record number of volcanoes now in
various stages of eruption.

Floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis
and other extreme weather have left a trail of destruction during
the first half of 2011.

There were jaw-dropping heat indexes -
measured as
a combination of temperature and humidity - across the
Midwest. It felt like 131 degrees in Knoxville, in central
Iowa, and 124 in Freeport, Ill., the Weather Service said.

The sheer force of Nature is increasing
(for some reason) and she is deadly, often striking without warning.
In the space of hours or even minutes, in the case of tornadoes,
unbridled forces of nature can obliterate everything man has
created.

It’s time to face the fact that the
weather has changed dramatically in a very short period of time and
it’s threatening to spin out of control.

In Chicago those looking for some kind
of a break from the heat of the last week got it overnight - a
rainstorm that dropped temperatures into the low 70s.

But like the heat wave that preceded it,
this rainstorm was anything but ordinary. According to
ChicagoWeatherCenter.com, the total rainfall at O’Hare - 6.91 inches
as of about 6:50 a.m. - is the largest single-day rainfall since
records began in 1871.

Reports of these kinds of storms have been pouring in from all
around the world.

Some people are calling them cloudburst storms,
which are very intense thunderstorms. In many instances these storms
appear to come out of nowhere. Most of them develop late at night
where the atmosphere has been heated by record daytime temperatures.

They are characterized by very intense
lightning strikes.

Some unleash hailstones and monstrous amounts of
rainfall that often lead to dramatic flash-flooding events like we
witness in the video below where we actually see, to our horror,
people getting swept away by a very sudden flood.

Climate change is dramatically increasing the scale of natural
disasters threatening world security as predicted years ago by a
2007 Pentagon study.

Though science cannot yet explain all
the reasons behind the radical changes in the world’s climate, “a
changing climate is a reality,” and one that effects all sectors of
society,
saidAchim Steiner, director of the U.N. Environment
Program.

While Chicago dealt with too much water,
Arkansas was preparing for forest fires due to drought.

Fires have been burning down millions of
acres around the world. Some 40,000 wildfires have torched over 5.8
million in the United States alone and conditions threaten to worsen
through the summer months.

The hot weather in the nation’s breadbasket also posed a threat to
farmers’ top cash crop, corn, as it enters its key growth stage of
pollination.

The wet spring led to late planting of
corn, and dry hot weather was adding concerns.

“Right now we are seeing real stress
in the corn plants,” said Mark White, adviser to the Missouri
Corn Growers Association.

Drought, unlike earthquakes,
hurricanes and other rapid-moving weather, could become a
permanent condition in some regions.

Temperatures in many states have spiked
to more than 100 degrees for days at a stretch.

And the day of dust storms is suddenly
back as dryness overtakes much of the country. Dozens of wildfires
raged across much of northwestern Ontario on the weekend as hot, dry
weather swept the province, leaving forests tinder-dry.

The provincial Ministry of Natural
Resources says there are 92 active fires burning in the remote
northwestern region.

Floods

Overnight rains dumped nearly seven
inches of rain on Chicago
early Saturday, breaking a record for the city, canceling flights,
and causing parts of highways and train lines to shut down.

July 18, 2011 – SCOTLAND

A flash flood created havoc for
residents and businesses in Perth by turning streets into
rivers. About a foot of water collected in some places around
East Bridge Street during the one-hour downpour.

Chris McCulloch, 44, said:

“I’ve never seen rain like it in
Scotland. All the streets coming down off the hill turned
into streams.”

Lagos experiences 178 mm of rain in
18 hours. It was destructive, but the rains will boost harvest.
The Sunday heavy downpour that continued up until yesterday has
thrown some families into mourning as no fewer than ten persons
lost their lives in the accompanying floods.

At least eight people were killed
and four were missing after torrential rains hit southern parts
of South Korea over the weekend, emergency officials said
Sunday. Since Friday, as much as 40 centimeters of rain has
fallen in South Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces, leaving tens of
thousands of hectares of farmland submerged and nearly 90 homes
flooded.

Heavy rains and resulting landslides
last week have caused widespread damage in parts of North Korea.
Some areas received more than 400 millimeters (15.7 inches) of
rain.

“Footage from other regions
showed flooded fields and damaged crops. Landslides in
Sunchon, Tokchon and Pukchang destroyed bridges and
railways, scores of homes, public buildings, roads, and tens
of thousands of hectares of farmland. Dozens of coalmines
were also flooded throughout the country.”

It’s not just extreme weather but
changes in an areas basic climate that is concerning people.

For instance lengths of winter, summer
and rainy seasons
in Bangladesh have increased, while spring has
decreased, changes that are likely to have an adverse impact on
agriculture, said a study based on farmers’ perceptions. Winter,
traditionally around two-and-a-half months long, now prevails for
three-and-three-quarters, while summer takes five months, almost
double the past usual length.

On the other hand, rainy season,
normally two-and-three-quarters, prevails for around
three-and-a-half months, while spring is now one-and-a-half months,
nearly half a month less than before.

Record Hot and
Cold

North Korea’s food shortage has reached
a crisis
point this year, aid workers say, largely because
of shocks to the agricultural sector, including
torrential rains and the coldest winter in 60 years.

Just when it is hottest and we are
totally convinced that global warming is not just a hallucination we
get a report urging motorists in Europe to pre-order cold-weather
tires because next winter
will “break all records” in terms of
snowfall and freezing temperatures.

Specialist long-range forecaster James
Madden, of Exacta Weather, correctly predicted the harsh conditions
experienced over the last two years and gave his forecast.

“The U.K. is to brace itself for
well-below-average temperatures and widespread heavy snowfall
throughout winter 2011/2012 which will result in the fourth bad
winter in succession, and will prove to be the worst of them
all.

“I fully expect records to be
broken, with the Highlands of Scotland being once again
particularly hard hit. It is vital to start preparing now.”

Lightning striking
over Cape Town, South Africa

You might have thought not too much out
of the ordinary about these super storms if you have not lived
through one yet.

We have heard of planes having problems
occasionally with lightening, but trains?

Conclusion

The weather has changed dramatically in a very short period of time.

One has to be almost brain-dead to not
get the implications to our civilization as the world’s climate
careens out of control. We can’t say we did not have any warning but
no one alive saw how violent the weather would turn out to be in
this first half of 2011. In 2007, NASA scientists also developed a
new climate model that indicated that the most violent severe storms
and tornadoes may become more common.

The media has been falling all over itself denying any connection
between these historic, violent storms and climate change. Most
meteorologists have been claiming the storms have been due to an
out-of-place jet stream.

The sun has been in a low activity phase
so something else has to be the cause of warming even as we suffer
through cooling due to diminished solar output.